Bet you can’t guess what kind of animal “Farmer Dillo” is! This chunky, CGI armadillo lives in a colorful place called Sundown and is struggling to decide which color he should paint his barn. After making several key errors and nearly losing sight of his camouflage barn, Famer Dillo finally chooses the best color for his new barn, a classic red.

Children enjoy interacting with the pictures in this book, trying to find the blue barn against the sky, the green barn against the trees, and the yellow barn against the setting sun. In fact, I even had trouble finding the black barn on the page showing the darkness of nighttime! The concept for this short book is unique, and it’s a good review even for kindergarteners of their most important colors. I especially enjoyed the “that’s life” attitude toward the end of the book when, after all his hard work of painting his barn the perfect color, Farmer Dillo “STILL can’t see his red barn” in the dark. It reminds me a little bit of an O.Henry twist, only for 4 year olds.